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Built-in Objects
Objects are passed into a template from the template engine. And your code can pass objects around (we'll see examples when we look at the with
and range
statements). There are even a few ways to create new objects within your templates, like with the tuple
function we'll see later.
Objects can be simple, and have just one value. Or they can contain other objects or functions. For example. the Release
object contains several objects (like Release.Name
) and the Files
object has a few functions.
In the previous section, we use {{.Release.Name}}
to insert the name of a release into a template. Release
is one of the top-level objects that you can access in your templates.
Release
: This object describes the release itself. It has several objects inside of it:Release.Name
: The release nameRelease.Namespace
: The namespace to be released into (if the manifest doesn’t override)Release.IsUpgrade
: This is set totrue
if the current operation is an upgrade or rollback.Release.IsInstall
: This is set totrue
if the current operation is an install.
Values
: Values passed into the template from thevalues.yaml
file and from user-supplied files. By default,Values
is empty.Chart
: The contents of theChart.yaml
file. Any data inChart.yaml
will be accessible here. For example{{.Chart.Name}}-{{.Chart.Version}}
will print out themychart-0.1.0
.- The available fields are listed in the Charts Guide
Files
: This provides access to all non-special files in a chart. While you cannot use it to access templates, you can use it to access other files in the chart. See the section Accessing Files for more.Files.Get
is a function for getting a file by name (.Files.Get config.ini
)Files.GetBytes
is a function for getting the contents of a file as an array of bytes instead of as a string. This is useful for things like images.
Capabilities
: This provides information about what capabilities the Kubernetes cluster supports.Capabilities.APIVersions
is a set of versions.Capabilities.APIVersions.Has $version
indicates whether a version (e.g.,batch/v1
) or resource (e.g.,apps/v1/Deployment
) is available on the cluster.Capabilities.Kube.Version
is the Kubernetes version.Capabilities.Kube
is a short form for Kubernetes version.Capabilities.Kube.Major
is the Kubernetes major version.Capabilities.Kube.Minor
is the Kubernetes minor version.
Template
: Contains information about the current template that is being executedName
: A namespaced filepath to the current template (e.g.mychart/templates/mytemplate.yaml
)BasePath
: The namespaced path to the templates directory of the current chart (e.g.mychart/templates
).
The values are available to any top-level template. As we will see later, this does not necessarily mean that they will be available everywhere.
The built-in values always begin with a capital letter. This is in keeping with Go's naming convention. When you create your own names, you are free to use a convention that suits your team. Some teams, like the Kubernetes Charts team, choose to use only initial lower case letters in order to distinguish local names from those built-in. In this guide, we follow that convention.